{
  "id": "cond-mat/9711219",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "1997-11-21T13:41:48.000Z",
  "updated": "1997-11-24T15:30:43.000Z",
  "title": "Free-electron Model for Mesoscopic Force Fluctuations in Nanowires",
  "authors": [
    "S. Blom",
    "H. Olin",
    "J. L. Costa-Kramer",
    "N. Garcia",
    "M. Jonson",
    "P. A. Serena",
    "R. I. Shekhter"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 3 figures, reference corrected",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevB.57.8830",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall"
  ],
  "abstract": "When two metal electrodes are separated, a nanometer sized wire (nanowire) is formed just before the contact breaks. The electrical conduction measured during this retraction process shows signs of quantized conductance in units of G_0=2e^2/h. Recent experiments show that the force acting on the wire during separation fluctuates, which has been interpreted as being due to atomic rearrangements. In this report we use a simple free electron model, for two simple geometries, and show that the electronic contribution to the force fluctuations is comparable to the experimentally found values, about 2 nN.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "1997-11-24T15:30:43.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "mesoscopic force fluctuations",
      "free-electron model",
      "simple free electron model",
      "metal electrodes",
      "nanometer sized wire"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. B"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}